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British Columbia Postal History Newsletter ARCH GR SE OU E P BRITISH COLUMBIA R POST OFFICE B POSTAL HISTORY R I A IT B ISH COLUM NEWSLETTER Volume 24 Number 1 Whole number 93 March 2015 A registered cover from the Minto General Store to Vancouver, dated Apr 1, 1941. Backstamps are Shalalth (Apr 2 duplex), Vancouver (Apr 2 CDS) and Vancouver Postal Station K (Apr 3 CDS). This issue’s Favourite Cover is from Minto Mine, group of residents: 25 Japanese-Canadian families, located on the Bridge River, northwest of Lillooet considered enemy aliens and forcibly relocated from and about 200 km north of Vancouver. Minto was a the BC coast until after the end of WWII. promising 1930s gold discovery. A townsite, usually In 1960, when the last residents left, Minto Mine post known as Minto or Minto City, was established office closed (June 17). That year the Bridge River nearby in 1934 and soon boasted 300 residents. A post was dammed as part of a gigantic hydroelectric office opened on Jan 1, 1935. project to provide power to Vancouver. Minto City, While nearby Bralorne and Pioneer mines proved along with its neighbouring hamlets of Wayside to have plenty of reserves of ore, the gold at Minto and Congress, disappeared beneath the waters of was soon played out. By 1938 the mine had failed. In Carpenter Lake, a new artificial reservoir. At extreme 1942, however, Minto’s status as an isolated, interior low water, apparently, the outline of the townsite is ghost town made it the perfect destination for a new still visible.—Andrew Scott In this issue: • Favourite cover: Minto General Store p 847 • The John Woolsey correspondence p 852 • Important information for subscribers p 848 • Remembering Janes Road post office p 856 • Straightline handstamp update p 849 • Victoria cork cancel survey, Part I p 857 • Gibsons to Brazil for MS Gripsholm p 850 • New post office markings at Sechelt p 862 BC Postal History Newsletter #93 Page 848 Editorial Alex was a consummate postal historian. I first met him some 25 years ago when he and his wife Thank you to all members who responded with Renee had just moved to Kelowna from Vancouver. thoughts and comments about subscripion fees. We Alex was in Bob Lee’s viewing room, meticulously suggested an annual fee of $15 for a quarterly print going through a bulk lot. “More junk!” he bellowed edition of 16 pages, including several pages in colour. at me, a relative novice to the strange world of postal This is very much in line with what other newsletters history, then went on to explain what, in his view, are charging. Nobody disagreed with our recommen- was good in this lot and what was “crap.” dation, so that is what we’ve decided on. Most print Thus began a long and mutually fulfilling subscriptions, both one and two-year, have now ex- friendship. I would see Alex at the quarterly Bob pired. Two or three members who paid beyond 2014 Lee auctions, and we would correspond on issues will have personal notes of explanation attached to of postal interest and eventually ended up chatting this issue. Everyone else will need to decide whether almost daily. Alex introduced me to the cerebral side to resubscribe at the $15 rate or receive the free digi- of BC postal history and I introduced him to eBay. I tal edition. (You can, of course, have both.) would say that I certainly got the better of the deal. Several members said they would pay a modest We attended philatelic conventions together, fee for a digital edition, but we decided to keep it including the PNW regional meetings of BNAPS, free. If you shift to the digital version, please make where Alex would entrance the gathered devotees sure we have your email address. You can also with his talks and his never-before-seen philatelic download it from our file-sharing site (see below). material. The meeting I organized in Barkerville was We will honour paid 2014 print subscriptions one of my favourite times with Alex. through this issue and next. If we have not received Alex (along with Gray Scrimgeour) helped greatly your renewal by then, we will shift your subscrip- with the editing of my book, BC Post Office Revenues. tion to digital. Finally, we are happy to accept dona- I’ll never forget how he instructed me on the proper tions (and we thank those who donated last year). use of “due to” and “owing to.” His suggestions made my foray into the world of publishing a successful one—at least in Alex’s opinion (which Harold Alexander Price meant the world to me). It is with great sadness that we note that one of the In his later years, when Alex was not as mobile giants of BC philately closed his albums for the last as he used to be, I would become (in his words) time on January 18, 2015, in Kelowna, BC. “his philatelic ferret,” getting to know his collecting Alex (pronounced “Alec”) was born on Nov interests as well as I knew my own. It was easy to 18, 1921, in Vancouver. Others have commented search for him while visiting dealers or other collectors. on Alex’s achievements in the Second World War, Alex was my great friend. I feel extremely lucky his community contributions, his love of wife and to have had the chance to know him, and I will miss family, and his long association with the Canadian him very much. He could always make me laugh Pacific Railway in western Canada. I would like to when he told me “I can’t go yet, I don’t have it all!” reflect briefly on his passion for history—especially Alex, in my opinion, you did have it all. for CPR postal history in British Columbia. —Tracy Cooper The British Columbia Postal History Newsletter is Editor: Andrew Scott published quarterly by the BC Postal History Study email: [email protected] Group, an affiliate of the British North America Associate Editor: Tracy Cooper Philatelic Society (BNAPS). email: [email protected] Annual subscription fee for printed and mailed Study Group Chair: Tim Woodland newsletters (four issues) is $15, in Cdn or US funds. email: [email protected] Dues are payable to the editor: Andrew Scott Editor Emeritus: Bill Topping 5143 Radcliffe Rd, Sechelt, BC, Canada V0N 3A2 Newsletter submissions may be sent to the editor at Individual print issues sell for $2.50 each, post paid. the addresses above. Free digital newsletters can be downloaded as PDF files at the following websites: for issues 1 to 59, go to www.bnaps.org/hhl/n-bcr.php; for later numbers, visit https://spideroak.com/browse/share/Andrew_Scott/Backissues. Issues 89 to present are in full colour; earlier newsletters are in b&w. File size is approximately 2 Mb/issue. BC Postal History Newsletter #93 Page 849 Straightline markings: a preliminary update Last issue’s article on Vancouver suburban straight- how found their way into more general service and line markings did not result in any new reports, ended up being used on the mail. which reinforces our impression that these hand- stamps are unusually rare. We don’t yet know why they’re so rare, but we’ll follow this topic and report back on it from time to time. Several study group members wrote in about other straightline markings, however. Clearly, these kinds of handstamps are a neglected research area, and we’ll try to pay more attention to them in the future. Study group chair Tim Woodland sent along the NEW WESTMINSTER straightline below. This type of marking was often added to a poorly or in- Jim also commented on the Vancouver AMF post correctly addressed cover as a directional aid. Was it office, which employed many different straightline postally applied, he wonders? I believe so, Tim, and markings, a few of which (from Transportation Proof there were quite a few different types. I’ve seen them Strikes of Canada, by Paul Hughes) are shown above. for Vancouver and North Vancouver, as well. —Andrew Scott Tim also submit- ted an interesting straightline of a type I’ve never seen before, from Holberg on Vancouver Island (below). It’s on the back of a registered cover from the Alaska Pine Co. Tim wonders if this was perhaps a marking used inter- nally by the company. Does anybody know? Group member Jim White pointed out that most of the straightlines he’d seen were on such items as letter bills, money orders and facing slips. Others were provisional cancels—prob- ably used while waiting for cancelling equipment to Here and there arrive from Ottawa. “I have thought that maybe the Two significant events for those interested in BC straightline cancels were used within the Post Of- postal history will both, unfortunately, take place fice Department,” he writes, “rather than for mail.” on the same April 24-26 weekend. • The Pacific Indeed, many straightline markings may originally Northwest Regional Group of BNAPS will meet at have been intended for internal use only, then some- Vernon’s Village Green Inn. For more information, contact Peter Fralick at 250-982-2474 or Shirley Ann Frick at 604-584-9265. • WESTPEX will be held at the San Francisco Airport Marriott Water- front. Earlier in the week there will be a two-day APS seminar on Western Postal History, with a presentation on colonial BC and Vancouver Island by study group member Dale Forster (April 22, in the am). Visit www.westpex.com for further conven- tion and exhibit details.
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